Canned vegetables refer to foods that use vegetables as raw materials, are processed, processed, and packaged to be preserved for a long time at room temperature in China. As a big agricultural country, vegetables are an important part of China, and canned vegetable products are relatively rich, and in recent years, they have been in a stage of rapid development. China's canned vegetables have developed for nearly two decades, the industry has gradually matured, and the output has shown a downward trend. In 2016, China's canned vegetable production reached the highest value, about 6.66 million tons, and then continued to decline, in 2020 by the impact of enterprise start and export demand, China's canned vegetable production fell to about 3.4 million tons.
With the decline in the output of canned vegetables, the scale of China's canned vegetable market has also shown a fluctuating downward trend, from 80 billion yuan in 2015 to about 50 billion yuan in 2020. In terms of production, China's canned vegetable processing and production is mainly concentrated in the northwest region, central and southern regions, the products produced are canned mushrooms, canned tomato sauce, canned small white mushrooms, canned bamboo shoots, canned asparagus, canned cowpea, canned broad beans and other products.
According to the "2021-2025 Vegetable Canned Industry In-depth Market Research and Investment Strategy Recommendation Report" released by the New Thought Industry Research Center, in terms of import and export, China is a canned vegetable export country, and the import volume of canned vegetables is small, and the domestic canned vegetable import volume in 2019 is about 12,000 tons, while in terms of exports, China's canned vegetable exports in 2019 are about 1.61 million tons. In terms of the analysis of the export structure of domestic canned vegetables, other canned mushrooms have the highest export volume, accounting for about 33%, followed by canned ketchup with a weight greater than 5kg, accounting for about 16%, canned vegetables accounting for 10%, and the subsequent export ratio of canned mushrooms, bamboo shoots, asparagus, cowpeas and other canned slags has not exceeded 10%.
However, as far as the single product is concerned, in addition to the canned tomatoes, the proportion of canned small white mushrooms in the country is relatively high, and the export volume of small white mushrooms in China in 2019 is about 160,000 tons, followed by canned bamboo shoots, with an export volume of about 102,000 tons, and the export volume of canned asparagus is about 50,000 tons.
In terms of production, the more representative canned fruit and vegetable production enterprises in China at present include Xinjiang Zhongji Tomato Products, Coconut Tree Group, Jinzhou Zhongbang Food, Rongtai Food, Guobin Food, Minzhong Organic Food, COFCO, Taifu Food, Unified Enterprise, Meilin Zhengguanghe, Santang Food, Purple Mountain Group, etc. With the gradual maturity of the domestic vegetable canning market, under the pressure of high competition, domestic vegetable canning enterprises actively expand overseas markets, and Central Asia, the Middle East and Africa and other regions have development potential in the future.
New Thinking Industry Analysts said that China is a big agricultural country, and the yield of vegetables is high, which is conducive to the development of the canned vegetable industry. After decades of development, China's canned vegetable market is relatively mature, demand tends to be stable, and domestic canned vegetable production has shown a downward trend. At present, domestic vegetable canning enterprises actively layout overseas markets, China's canned vegetable exports are relatively high, and there are still development opportunities in overseas markets in the future.